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Free Instructions: Bumble Bee Earrings

Make your own pair of handmade bumble bee drop earrings, featuring our Charity tiny bee charm! 50% of our retail sale price of our tiny bee charm multi packs will be donated to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust Read More These drop earrings are perfect for beginners to jewellery making. We have chosen to use Empire Jasper semi-precious beads, but you could swap for any other bead you like!

Materials Needed:: 2 x ear wires ( LBWSP), 2 x Mandala links ( MT1DL), 2 x 6mm Empire Jasper Beads (EMJ6SRMX), 2 x eye pins (EPSP) 2 x Tiny Bee Charms (MT1CJ).


Tools Needed: Chain nosed pliers ( BEECN), side cutters (BEESC), one pair of round nosed pliers ( BEERN).

Instructions

  1. Pop a bead on an eye pin, using side cutters, trim the eye pin 1 cm above the bead

    Free Instructions Bumble Bee Earrings 1
  2. Using flat nosed pliers to fold the top part of the eye pin until it reaches a right angle

    Free Instructions Bumble Bee Earrings 2
  3. Using round nosed pliers, turn a neat loop

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  4. Using chain nosed pliers, open up the both loops on your bead/eye pin section you have just made. Pop one tiny bee charm onto one loop, and the mandala link on the other loop. Using chain nosed pliers close both the two loops on your beady eye pin.

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  5. Using chain nosed pliers, open up the loop on an ear wire and attach the other loop of the madala link. Close the ear wire loop

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  6. Repeat all the steps again to make your matching earring!

You're finished !

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